1 John 4:9
God's love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Cross References
Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to evangelize poor people. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to blind people, to send those who are oppressed out in freedom,
John 3:16Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted, but should have eternal life.
John 5:23so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
John 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. Actually, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give on behalf of the life of the world.”
John 8:29And the One who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do the things that please Him.”
Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:8-14
Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 80.) 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one… Read the whole commentary →